Posts tagged books
Let my children hear music!
To read today
Kierkegaard, Edifying Discourses
I probably spend too much money on books.
But when a poet makes me laugh, think, or feel personally victimized, I buy their bloody book.
Is it bad to skip Mass if you do it in order to pick up a huge pile of free books?
What if those books include A Kempis, Aristotle, Chesterton, O’Connor, Milton, and Chaucer?
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
“Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (via theroadrisesup)
There are no words for how much I love this book.
(via badwolfcomplex)
Interesting thing for a guy like Pratchett to write. True, though.
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